Hippias Major
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Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hippias Major canonical | 10 |
| Hippias | 2 |
| Hippias Maior | 1 |
| Hippias Minor | 1 |
| Plato's dialogue Hippias Major | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hippias Major Context triple: [Plato, notableWork, Hippias Major]
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A.
Philebus
Philebus is one of Plato’s later philosophical dialogues, chiefly concerned with examining the nature of pleasure, knowledge, and the good life.
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B.
Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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C.
Phaedrus
Phaedrus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores themes of love, rhetoric, and the soul through a conversation between Socrates and the young Athenian Phaedrus.
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D.
Phaedo
Phaedo is a Platonic dialogue that recounts the final hours and philosophical discussions of Socrates before his execution.
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E.
Theaetetus
Theaetetus is a Platonic dialogue that explores the nature of knowledge through a conversation between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hippias Major Target entity description: Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.
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A.
Philebus
Philebus is one of Plato’s later philosophical dialogues, chiefly concerned with examining the nature of pleasure, knowledge, and the good life.
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B.
Timaeus
Timaeus is a Platonic dialogue that presents a cosmological account of the universe’s creation, structure, and order through the speech of the character Timaeus.
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C.
Phaedrus
Phaedrus is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores themes of love, rhetoric, and the soul through a conversation between Socrates and the young Athenian Phaedrus.
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D.
Phaedo
Phaedo is a Platonic dialogue that recounts the final hours and philosophical discussions of Socrates before his execution.
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E.
Theaetetus
Theaetetus is a Platonic dialogue that explores the nature of knowledge through a conversation between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Platonic dialogue
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Socratic dialogue ⓘ |
| author | Plato ⓘ |
| authorshipStatus |
disputed
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traditionally attributed to Plato ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | Thrasyllan tetralogies ⓘ |
| centralQuestion |
What is beauty itself?
ⓘ
What is the beautiful? ⓘ |
| characterRoleOfHippias | sophist ⓘ |
| characterRoleOfSocrates | questioner ⓘ |
| conclusion | no final definition of beauty is reached ⓘ |
| corpus |
Platonic corpus
ⓘ
Socratic dialogues of Plato ⓘ |
| dialogueForm | elenchus ⓘ |
| ending | aporia ⓘ |
| examinesConcept |
absolute beauty
ⓘ
difference between examples and essence ⓘ relativism about beauty ⓘ use of examples in definition ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Eudicus
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Hippias of Elis ⓘ Socrates ⓘ |
| focusesOn | distinction between beautiful things and Beauty itself ⓘ |
| genre |
aesthetic treatise
ⓘ
philosophical dialogue ⓘ |
| hasTitleInGreek | Ἱππίας μείζων ⓘ |
| influenced |
later aesthetic theory
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medieval discussions of pulchrum ⓘ |
| language | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| mainTheme | beauty ⓘ |
| period | Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ |
| philosophicalApproach | dialectic ⓘ |
| philosophicalTopic |
Socratic method
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aesthetics ⓘ definition of beauty ⓘ nature of the beautiful ⓘ |
| preservedIn | manuscripts of Platonic dialogues ⓘ |
| questionsViewOf |
beauty as appropriateness
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beauty as pleasure ⓘ beauty as usefulness ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Hippias Minor
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Phaedrus ⓘ Symposium ⓘ
linked to:
Συμπόσιον
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| setIn | Athens ⓘ |
| structure | aporetic ⓘ |
| style |
early Platonic style (according to some scholars)
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possibly later Platonic style (according to other scholars) ⓘ |
| traditionallyDatedTo | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
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Subject: Hippias Major Description of subject: Hippias Major is a Platonic dialogue in which Socrates and the sophist Hippias attempt, and repeatedly fail, to define the nature of beauty.
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